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Social Media Strategy For The Hank Greenspun School Of Journalism And Media Studies, Irene Williams

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Within the past 10 years, communication online has evolved tremendously toward social media. This rapid change has been difficult for higher education institutions (HEI) to adapt to, leaving this important area underexplored. This strategic social media plan was developed to improve internal and external communication for the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies (JMS). By initiating social media platforms, relationships are cultivated with present and future students on Facebook and Twitter. This strategic social media plan develops and maintains Facebook and Twitter pages for JMS and interprets social media site visitation data. These data provide information on users, …

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

Family-Friendly Work Environment? An Investigation Of Women's Job Stress And Satisfaction, Nina Ciric

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Little research has focused on women with and without children in the workplace and their work-life balance. This study is conducted through the lens of organizational culture in order to determine how different workplace policies can influence women and their job satisfaction and level of job stress. The participants for this study included 172 female students and staff (working full and part time) from an institution of higher education in South Texas. Results showed no significant differences in women's job satisfaction or stress level at work, regardless of having children or not. However, there is a positive relationship between women's …

The Prospector, April 30, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Prostate Cancer Research Provided Funding

The Prospector, April 23, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Art Issue

The Prospector, April 16, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Earth Issue: Out of the Smoke

The Beacon - Vol 11 No. 9 - April 12, 2013, Merrimack College

The Beacon

The Beacon - the student newspaper of Merrimack College. Volume 11, Number 9 - April 12, 2013. 12 pages

The Prospector, April 11, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: SGA Candidates Caught Red-Handed With Election Violations

Spartan Daily April 9, 2013, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 140, Issue 34

The Prospector, April 2, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Wellness Issue

Reefer Madness To Marijuana And Legalization: Media Exposure And American Attitudes Towards Marijuana (1975-2010), Richard James Stringer

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

American attitudes toward marijuana have varied greatly from the time it was criminalized in the 1930's until 2010, and public opinion favoring the legalization of marijuana has steadily risen since 1990. Since the media is purported to have had an impact on the legislation rather than objective risk factors, it is possible that the marijuana epidemic could be the result of a socially constructed moral panic. As such, this study utilized General Social Survey data to examine the relationship between media exposure and attitudes toward the legalization of marijuana from 1975 through 2010, 1975 through 1990, and 1991 through 2010. …

Mass Media Distortion Of Violent Crime In The United States And Its Effect On Public Peace Of Mind, Robert S. Arold

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

In a society where violent crime is rampant, the media have varying effects on public peace of mind all over the United States. News reports are viewed via television broadcast, print publication, and with other convergent components that evolve with technological developments; the factors of each medium can determine the viewer’s perception of a given story. Through extensive research and survey results of students at a mid-Atlantic liberal arts institution, this study explores the relationship between media coverage of violent crimes and the public’s response to such coverage by answering several questions: (1) do the United States mass media distort …

The Prospector, March 28, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: UTEP Creates It's Own Criteria for Tier One

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

The Prospector, March 26, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: UTEP Requests a $99-Million Tuition Bond For Construction

Trayvon Martin And The International Press, Michael Leslie, Stania Antoine

Center for the Study of Race & Race Relations: Lectures and Events

Just as international coverage of the Emmett Till case in 1955 marshaled domestic support for the civil rights movement, international coverage of the Trayvon Martin murder focused attention on the disgraceful mishandling of the Martin’s murder case, spurring international, national and local public protests, and ultimately forcing the indictment of his killer. This paper examines the international discourse generated around the Martin affair and argues that such discourse widened domestic discourse regarding the murder, transforming the murder of yet another black youth into a referendum on the functioning of the American criminal justice system and the myth of the American …

Prospectus, March 6, 2013, Mace Mackiewicz, Spencer Brown, Lauren Tucker-Hinton, Jojo Rhinehart, Alex Wallner, Gerardo Jimenez, Mark Roughton, Brittany Hardy

Prospectus 2013

MARRIAGE EQUALITY BILL PROGRESSES IN ILLINOIS; Martin Lutehr King honored in countrywide celebration; Professor encourages students to experience the arts; Discover the science behind healthy shuteye; Class participation improves student performance; Schmoozing in an electronic world; Voting rights remain vulnerable; Cobras Basketball season comes to an end; Brothers find home with Cobras; Presidents of the Small Screen

The Prospector, February 26, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Fashion Issue

The Prospector, February 19, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: SB 182: UTEP Officials Oppose Concealed Weapons Bill

The Prospector, February 12, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Love & Sex Issue

The Legacy, January 30, 2013, Lindenwood University

The Legacy (2007-2018)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood University

'Smart' Justice Is Based On More Than Just Reducing Costs, Roberto Hugh Potter

UCF Forum

I attended a statewide “justice summit” in December, but left wondering about how some people think we should achieve that.

The Prospector, January 22, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Controlled Access to Campus

#Occupy In The San Francisco Bay, Dorothy Kidd

Media Studies

If Occupy Wall Street focused attention on the transnational resistance to the imaginaries and practices of neo-liberalization, the networked protests, collectively identified as #Occupy each emerged out of particular places, contexts and histories of contestation. This paper examines the significance in one urban region, the San Francisco Bay, and especially the intersection between #Occupy and longer-term residual urban social movements. Understanding neo-liberalization as a dynamic process, I begin by mapping the vectors of contention in the regional imposition of the neo-liberal project, and especially the sectors of housing, employment, education and media representation. I then analyse the intersection of the …

Schooling In Illinois Detention Centers And Youth Prisons: What Works?, Nicholas Samuel

Communication Theses & Capstone Projects

The work outlines issues with the Illinois juvenile detention centers and youth prisons, outlining inequities in educational coursework, staffing shortages, and student class size and compares Illinois statistics in these systems with national ones.

Breaking Scandal: Inside The Sexual Assault Coverage, The Jezebel Reporter's Defense, University Of Montana--Missoula. School Of Journalism

Montana Journalism Review

Year in Review -- The New Ball and Chain -- Two Nations, One Voice -- Running On Empty -- Lightweight Heroes -- Cover Story: The Blame Game -- You've Been Served -- How a Night Can Go Wrong -- Out of the Abyss -- Looking Down the Barrel -- Falling Far From Here -- Watchdog -- Made in Montana

A New Method To Evaluate Community Based Mediation Programs: Multi-Attribute Cost Utility Analysis, Cory William Stufflebeem

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis was to develop a new approach to evaluating the cost-effectiveness of community based mediation programs in order to promote a more robust methodology for researching community based mediation in general, and to provide a means for the favorable claims of community based mediation to be accurately validated.

A methodology was created based on multi-attribute cost utility analysis. This analysis involves studying two programs simultaneously: a community based mediation program and a corresponding court adjudication program/institution. These programs are evaluated on three measures of effectiveness or attributes: satisfaction rating, number of successful cases processed, and compliance …

Challenging The Media-Incarceration Complex Through Media Education, Bill Yousman

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Focusing on prime-time dramatic television as the most prevalent source of fictional images of violence, crime, and incarceration, in this chapter I address the distorted narratives and images that saturate popular television dramas. I also draw upon interviews I conducted with ex-prisoners to show how media representations of imprisonment, though inaccurate and misleading, shape the perceptions even of those who have themselves been incarcerated.

The Roma And Wall Street/Ceos: Linguistic Construction Of Identity In U.S. And Canadian Crime Reports, Theresa Catalano

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Discriminatory practices against Roma (also known as Romanies) occur on a daily basis in many countries around the world through media discourse. This paper investigates the representation of Romanies in U.S. and Canadian online newspaper crime reports and compares this representation to Wall Street/CEOs in crime reports demonstrating how identity of both groups is constructed through a variety of linguistic and non-linguistic strategies. Drawing on Mayr and Machin’s (2012) critical linguistic analysis of the language of crime, this multimodal study incorporates a variety of tools such as Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Linguistics in order to dig below the surface …

The Inmate Code: The Stories Lived And The Stories Told Of Men Behind Bars, Pauline Matthey

Masters Theses

Using Coordinated Management of Meaning, this study links socialization and identification with the intricate levels of the inmate code that male prisoners live by, or live with anyway, while being incarcerated. In doing so, the research showed that the more highly identified to the inmate code a prisoner is, the less likely he is to have a desire to coordinate the meaning of his stories lived with the stories told of others. Furthermore, this project uncovered a characteristic of metamorphosis, the TRAP, or Temporary Relapse Alluding to the Past. TRAP takes place when prisoners who have developed the ability to …